When you employ web-based services on the Internet, SSL certificates are the industry standard for authentication and security. Depending on how you plan to use SSL certificates, multi-use certificates can provide greater flexibility than traditional certificates. Multi-use certificates protect multiple Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) and subdomains, lowering your administrative costs and simplifying certificate installation,
Trust is a fundamental currency on the web. In a virtual world, where you never know for sure who is controlling the website you are viewing or consuming the information you are sharing, meaningful interaction is impossible without high levels of trust. Increasingly, as cybercriminals have become more sophisticated in setting up spoof phishing sites
Microsoft will end support for Windows XP on the 8th April 2014. Organizations that have not started a migration to Microsoft Windows 7 will need to do so quickly or lose support for one of the most important technologies in the enterprise desktop environment. There are two options for customers after this date; either take
The pressure for organizations, in the public or private sector, to reduce costs is constant. At the same time, organizations have to remain or improve user productivity in all their departments to stay competitive. This is even further magnified during a recovering economy as organizations face challenges of sustaining or growing revenue from customers or
Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technologies are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. They are also driving a complete rethinking of enterprise networking architectural strategy. The well-documented impact of these disruptive technologies affect everything from server strategies to power requirements. However, one of the most affected areas—the enterprise network
The role of the CIO has evolved from supporting the implementation and delivery of the business strategy to actively working with the business to develop the strategy. As IT infrastructure is increasingly viewed as a means to an end, many organisations have turned to outsourcing to allow internal resources to be focused on creating business
Organizations today are collecting tremendous volumes of data, generated by a wide variety of sources, often at extreme velocities. This is “big data”—the millions of stock trades, call detail records (CDRs), social media posts and patient test results produced every single day. Leading organizations in financial services, telecommunications, retail, healthcare, digital media, insurance and other
Leading marketers in retail, banking, telecommunications, digital media, travel and transportation and other industries have already started to take advantage of big data to effect change. They are implementing analytics solutions to access the full breadth of information, discover new patterns, better anticipate customer behaviors and determine the next best action in real time. By
Banks thrive on data: transactions, customer interactions, mortgage rate changes, risk assessments and investment portfolios. They analyze the data for trends, patterns and insights to help boost efficiency, ensure compliance or increase revenue. But not all of this data lives conveniently in a structured database or data warehouse. Sometimes it comes from real-time data feeds
While the inevitable move to Windows 7 has been on the horizon for IT departments for several years, it’s clear that migration projects continue to plague many IT professionals. RES Software commissioned its second Windows 7 migration survey in June 2012 to assess the progress of these implementations in relation to a previous benchmarking survey